e THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. Јах, 22 
1 : ing E. 8 incul-| premiums awarded for experiments XX 
peg market daysat Newbury of any of the porters. — would e 3 doi mm „ pr Ше panera mikk Rad teen ConA s r ; 
3 in Draining 22 1 many facts that from | useful practices in feeding, The е at which соне the highest commendation, and stated that an any 1 
time to time are bein duced in explanation of the] сап be brought forward must be strictly limited and gestion through Mr, Maxwell with regard to any , 
principles of ere are "boi interesting and highly | defined. We all know that there is a great dispropor- | ject which a member might consider wor Sy of i of ing, | 
instructive ; and landow and farm Xp wil do | tion in the periods at which different classes of breeds gation, would receive the ; attention of the | 
well to learn from ies ‘the occasion supe-|of animals can be brought to the required 1 Gold Medals have deen awarded ba 
rior and 2 careful Mart e ey “the work | of muscle and fatness, We know how mere differ l. James Бо, Mains of Haulkerton, Kineare hire, fg 
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у been going o 1s w ы mixed hu: sbando containing above 200 a acres, under 9 
some extensive Ашу diat has Sei done some time,| breeds of the plains, fattened it may be said from ы ов. 
and wi lies for long distances almost|the birth, and the hardier breeds of the higher 2. James Cowie, Mains of Haulkerton, for a plan and E 
fed 
ace 
i i ir | tion of a steading and offices, adapte ed for fi 
level, and the soil is elay, I have been much puzzled to | country, which can only be fed for a period of their Бада, worked — en 3 а farm of mixed hu 
account for the partial effect of the draining. Although | lives on the natural produce of the countries in 3. Dun an F orbes Culloden, Inverness-shire, for ^ 
the mouths of the drains discharge freely, and the surface | which they are reared. But making due allowance for ste land on the estate of Culloden, 4 
і rains has generally been without standing | these different conditions, it is easy to determine the 4. „James Melvin, ben e Bethe, Mis Lothian, for a rehm 
water, yet there are spots, and over the drains too, where maximum o age ich breeds or classes of animals . John Lockhart Morton, dn. agent, Edinburgh, for a repos 
ys. On opening the drains | of any kind shall be allowed to be brought into compe- | on MUR application of liquid manure. port 
they were seen to be carrying a continuous stream from | tition ; and doing this, the premiums for fattened stock | 6. John Lockhar t Morton land-agent, Edinb for a пуд 
end, and nowhere was there any impediment | are really calculated to improve the live stock of the on 2 7 Хотонт асату азат plantain е. 
save that from some slight i ‘arity in maintaining а | country, although in a different manne than when 4 fir 
orm fall. I found that owing to slight inequalities | premiums for breeding stock only are given. The 8 James Porter, Monymusk, for a report on compos 
in the surface, and inattention to main ining а uni- improvement of the live stock of the country, І need 9. Andrew Т 3 Clandeboye, Holy wond, roln r fora 
form inclination in the bottom of the drain, there were | not say, is worthy of our continued attention. From report on the best modes ee ousing, ud 
" e $ np pas 
ere the pipes for short distances lay too low, and | this source alone half the rental of the British Islands 10. Alexander Thomson, of Bancho ory, At rordeonshire, fes 
ran full, and whenever this occurred there was no drain- | is paid; but however important this kind of publie |report of improvement of waste land on ile estate of Ban 
i be, it i e only bran rural| 11. John * i Edington, Mains, Berwickshire, fore’ report 
n th 
was occasioned by the pipes not admitting the access of economy to which it is the province of — Society » NE i 
em i nd. A great pro 1. Willi arem б prf rene — ——.— a на М for a 
the water brought to them from beyond, and the quan- | the encouragement of other branches o ci eco — on N and pasturing g cattle, а 
tity was not sufficient {о fill them, except in these low | to bringing chemical and ph siological science to the 2. v Anderson, jun., Ballynacree House, Ballymoney, 
inoperative in draining from around | aid of the practical farmer ; to improving the dwellings = 015 на. of peat in burning dy 
inati hum an d 
s A to rewarding 3. Robert Boyle, 2 Pottery, Ayr, for a report on top. 
account for a defect in draining which has not unfre. ^ the labourer ; and, above all, — with, m | dressing Grass with gua 
уы attracted my notice, and I do so thus, viz. :— | encourazi aging, by means of honorary and pecun 4. Thomas Ferguson, А Ashmore, Perthshire, for a report d 
here the pipes discharge without running fall, , there premiums the local associations now —— established | improvement of waste la 
is à vacuum above the stream, and in part of Scotland. These are important objects, que ner — ә em аша 2 ino li, wr Tapers so 
the exterior of the e pipes that causes fi sin T вой — wil never be neglected while the Society maintains 1. Kennedy M Nab I Md Cottage s reme verness, for a report 
above, which extend to the surface ; where | the influence and character which it now possesses, In | оп the cottage accommodation of parts of the counties of Naim, 
the pipes run full the soil around them is Ty satu. | taking further means, then, for improving the live Inverness, Ross, wt dunes 4 * 
rated and without the fissures that drained | stock of the country, we have carefully to consider on рате 10905, land aud wood surveyor, Perth, for a report 
land always has ; so that the water from — tees whether this сап be done without interferi ring with | Mr. Makgill also intimated that а gold medal had been awarded 
no vent below, has no eseape, and the land is|other and not less important duties. І am happy to Mr. Miine, d атуу: aed A. Purpletop Yellow Turnip sei 
so far ns the pipes below lie full of water.| to say that it is the opinion of the directors that Srown in the co nty of Abe 
That this is the right explanation I have tested by|this ean be done, and ayer peed done. From the| Mr. Heeb; i ie very com apli mentary terms, then movel — 
Frais that weis open hn theselowspotsintoadjoining rapidly increasing number of o ee and the | the Xp of Mr. Hall Maxwell as sec retary, 
І 0 А by so p i 
1 irroandin h f g e least 
rapidly disappeared. When draining is done in wet|those other purposes for which our funds are now | Separated. 
weather, here i oy i 
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stream to direct the pipe layer, but little da er from this enter into details. I merel * ee if the meeting 
has rehende ithon of|is sati at Ы к — 
is 
water to prove the continuous inclination, or sufficient | calculated to be of — to the coun omen, they will | айап Irrigation: A xad he Agricultural b 
fall of the land to insure it, there will always be con- authorise the аы to take the subject into con- Of Piedmont and Lombardy, "айдата to the Hon, the 
siderable hazard in leaving draining to the superin- sideration, so that they may be prepared to present a ae E Directors of the East India Company.” By | 
tendence of men unused to or unacquainted — the use | f c report to the next general meeting to R. B mith, F.G. зра in the Army, & 
of instruments that alone ean be depended on in these be held in this place. Ihave, therefore, merely to beg Printed E order. W. H. Allen and Со, London 
I can trace much imperfect pot 3 to leave to move—* That the proposal to establish Зое Tur past Numbers of the Жнын Gazette have сой 
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mperiect attention in this respect. Hewitt Davis, 3, | Exhibitions of fat stock 
Frederick’s Place, Old Jewry, London, Jan, 19. e generall argu 
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motion, said it was impossible to ыу ‘the utili of тиз a than has hitherto been conceded toit; and the 
Societies. pide — кау y it; and the 
season has especiall 
The Chairman inquired when it was roposed to hold notice of farmers in that direction, It is well ) 
Hiomnawp AND 1 Jan. 11.—The half. the first Show ? 1 The See sir dg ч нат a should know not only where, in what Totes : Я 
of this Society was held this day. en Betwixt this and the Summer General Mee ting | practice of irrigation may be inspected, but where, i. 
was Пешћеге were admitted. The Duke of we may arrange all the conditions, so as to have them what Eee it is described. Among all the English 
Iu TE dos in room | then authorised, and published afterwards, But as this works, certainly not many, that can be placed upon - 
e hak now to retire. The notice will go to the publie, the parties contem- | list, unquestionably the most important, the 
oes ж] in 1854 was rerit to be held at plating rt in the Show will have sufficient | structive and, we may add, the most interesting, l 
intima; He might mention that the directors had | one before us, by Captain Smith. We can at present 
merely state the eter of 
been 
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Meroen зоо dhe colon at i nat noy i | The Societ collecting agricultural als making eere | ersonal narrati 
these shows in each year i — i to select thr ti : ыы d 
that every purpose of silty may be se served by holding paper bi $E ssh em gai sg sed tov es in which the traveller has had 5 eyes а mie to ra 
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the directors have seen fit to restrict the offers| probable cost of that experiment. | 
i 4 ] Chemi: —Professor Anderson gave in tenant in northern I nerall at 
аз тШ be sufieient to induce the breeders | the report on the chang t for the ‘ast six warping, on the . e at 
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of which Seinen 4 be f aac <a Lopes results of irrigation are e ram attention — 
veis but had Nem ons e oidabl careful and repeated perusal, It — two octavo — 
inquiry loia thie кт зө, а 8 а, delayed. Te Its ehe an volumes, of some 400 p adem ch, and is accompanied | 
the chemisiry of thi — urnip. | by a folio Series of maps and sections. a 
E bu i A SOME Вий, 1 
et ct ah pe iem y Вер ee g 
which would be included in a report in novelist’ Ween that the farmer knows what he 
for next number of the Trans- tu EF 
the | ; Premiums for 
age, a ; Reports o Ex t —: 
proper › and fattened for the gill, of Kembaek, ш * periments, & c. 5 
